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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125423323602549299.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

This is my favorite quote of the article:

“The rising number of bank failures has infuriated some politicians who have recently begun pressuring Ms. Bair’s regulators to ease up on their increasingly close supervision of the industry.”

Translation: “Banks are failing because you are regulating them. Regulate them less. Yes that will fix them and make them healthy again.”

And they wonder why we have no faith and confidence in our government.

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I just want to thank Adobe for having 675MB of updates available for me after doing a clean install of Adobe CS4 Design Premium.  I’m really enjoying burning up the bandwidth with Adobe Updater for each computer I need to install CS4 on.  This situation really encourages me to roll my own CS4 installer that has all the updates built in using JAMF Composer.  It’s almost a necessity at this point.

I have had a Blackberry 8830 World Edition for a few weeks.  I like it – makes nice clear calls, checks my e-mail, and the browser is adequate for when I’m not around wi-fi for the iPod Touch.  However, the app ecosystem is just not there yet.  One such example is the Facebook app written by RIM for the Blackberry.  My biggest complaint is that you can’t turn off notifications, so every time someone does something on Facebook, your phone beeps.  The consensus online for getting around such hurdles is logging out of the Facebook app each time you’re done with it, or, uninstall it.

I chose the latter option.  If I need Facebook on the Blackberry, I’ll just use the browser.  I can’t wait for an iPhone option on Verizon, though I doubt it’s coming anytime soon.